strategy was aided by religious tensions aroused in the wake of an affray at Harbour Grace in December 1883. Nineteen Catholics were arrested and charged with the murder of four Orangemen. Their acquittal in

 June 1834 in Boston, eldest son of William Henry Whiteley and Ann Maria Kelson; m. 9 Feb. 1859 Louisa Ann Thompson in London, England

THOMPSON, GRACE SARAH HALL (Fletcher), businesswoman and social reformer; b

the new premier, Attorney General John Sparrow David Thompson*. As a close associate of Holmes, he chose to follow him into

–1901) and Anna —; m. first 31 Dec. 1880 Emma A. Wood (d. 1886) in Cobourg, Ont., and they had a daughter; m. secondly 20 March 1901 Bessie Stephen Thompson, and they had a

 1903. Like many female reformers of this period, Edith Perrin also devoted her energies to the temperance cause [see Grace Sarah

Thompson* in 1894. In the election of 1896 he won the urban vote in his constituency but lost his seat thanks to strong rural dissatisfaction engendered by a quarter-century of distress and depopulation

, signed in 1898 with the Tory government of Sir James Spearman Winter*. Harvey was returned in the district of Harbour Grace and

again as vicar general between 1873 and 1877. Rome too had a regard for Cameron’s competence: in 1871 he was asked to settle a jurisdictional dispute at Harbour Grace, Nfld. During the 1880s he would be

. 1866 Annie Elizabeth Thompson, and of their ten children two sons and five daughters survived him; d

Globe, much to the embarrassment of the government. Atkins had to go, but with grace, so as not to offend too greatly his Methodist, temperance, and business connections